Confist for subsidies – Trump freezes billions for elite university Harvard

The step was justified with alleged contempt for civil rights and insufficient dedication to anti -Semitism at the university, who does not want to meet the government’s requirements.

• The government, based in Cambridge in the US state of Massachusetts, demanded various changes in a letter on Friday and asked them to receive various obligations.
• In the letter, the university asked to report foreign students to the federal authorities in violation of the rules of conduct, to have the diversity of opinion checked among university students and university staff, and to end the approval of students and to end employees according to diversity criteria.

Uni rejects claims
The Harvard management had previously rejected the claims. “No government- regardless of which party has been in power- should dictate what private universities can teach, who they can allow and hire and what study and research areas they can pursue,” says a letter from university president Alan Garber. The university will not give up its independence and constitutional rights.

Garber also wrote that the freedom of thinking and research, as well as the long -term commitment of the government to respect and protect it, would have made it possible for universities to contribute to a free society in a decisive way.

Universities in the eyes of the government
The government of Trump does with hard bandages against critics and unpleasant opinions or values ​​that it locates in the left -liberal spectrum. Universities are also the target – for example because of diversity programs that prevent historical conditional discrimination against black, women and other disadvantaged groups.

According to threats from Washington, other elite universities such as New York Columbia University have already made concessions and thus dealing with criticism.